This is a six month postoperative MRI of an 11-year-old male patient with temporal-parietal-occipital epilepsy: right posterior quadrant is completely disconnected, but isolated brain tissue has normal signals, indicating that the disconnected nerve tissue survived.
Credit: Neural Regeneration Research

Postoperative MRI scans of the two epileptic patients showed that the disconnected brain tissue still survived, the activity of temporal-parietal occipital nerve tissue was maintained, and nerve fibers were completely disconnected.

The involved patients were followed-up for over 1 year after surgery, during which time the epilepsy was completely controlled.

The relevant paper has been published in Neural Regeneration Research (Vol. 9, No. 4, 2014).

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